The Hermes 3000 was a lightweight, segment-shifted portable typewriter manufactured by Paillard-Bolex . [1] [2] "Bulbous" and "angular" in shape, [3] it came with a fitted, hard-shell removable cover. The machines were built in Yverdon, Switzerland, by Paillard S.A. [4]
The Hermes 3000 was introduced in 1958 [5] as a successor to the Hermes 2000. [2] The original Model 1 was produced until 1966; with subsequent design modifications to the external casing and a variety of subtle changes in colour finishes, the Hermes 3000 was manufactured into the 1980s. [5] Although it was a portable machine, the Hermes 3000 had a few deluxe features, such as a "beyond the margins" key, which could also be depressed to free any jammed keys and return them to their resting position. [6] The typewriters predominantly came in a light green (occasionally described as a mint [7] or "sea-foam green") colour. [8]
William Kotzwinkle's 1972 novel was named Hermes 3000 after the machine. [9] During his acceptance speech for "Best Screenplay ( Brokeback Mountain)" at the 2006 Golden Globes, author Larry McMurtry specifically mentioned his Hermes 3000, stating: "Most heartfelt, I thank my typewriter. My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius. It has kept me for thirty years out of the dry embrace of the computer". [2] [10] [11]
Other notable users of the machine are Sam Shepard, Eugène Ionesco and Stephen Fry. [2] Beat writer Jack Kerouac wrote his final novel, Vanity of Duluoz, [12] on the Hermes 3000 in 1966. In a March 2018 auction at Bonhams in London, the Hermes 3000 on which Sylvia Plath had typed her only novel— The Bell Jar—in 1962 was sold for £26,000 [13] ($46,071). [note 1] In 2013, in an appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, actor Tom Hanks named the Hermes 3000 as the luxury item he would choose to take with him. [16] [note 2]
hermes 3000.
The Hermes 3000 was a lightweight, segment-shifted portable typewriter manufactured by Paillard-Bolex . [1] [2] "Bulbous" and "angular" in shape, [3] it came with a fitted, hard-shell removable cover. The machines were built in Yverdon, Switzerland, by Paillard S.A. [4]
The Hermes 3000 was introduced in 1958 [5] as a successor to the Hermes 2000. [2] The original Model 1 was produced until 1966; with subsequent design modifications to the external casing and a variety of subtle changes in colour finishes, the Hermes 3000 was manufactured into the 1980s. [5] Although it was a portable machine, the Hermes 3000 had a few deluxe features, such as a "beyond the margins" key, which could also be depressed to free any jammed keys and return them to their resting position. [6] The typewriters predominantly came in a light green (occasionally described as a mint [7] or "sea-foam green") colour. [8]
William Kotzwinkle's 1972 novel was named Hermes 3000 after the machine. [9] During his acceptance speech for "Best Screenplay ( Brokeback Mountain)" at the 2006 Golden Globes, author Larry McMurtry specifically mentioned his Hermes 3000, stating: "Most heartfelt, I thank my typewriter. My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius. It has kept me for thirty years out of the dry embrace of the computer". [2] [10] [11]
Other notable users of the machine are Sam Shepard, Eugène Ionesco and Stephen Fry. [2] Beat writer Jack Kerouac wrote his final novel, Vanity of Duluoz, [12] on the Hermes 3000 in 1966. In a March 2018 auction at Bonhams in London, the Hermes 3000 on which Sylvia Plath had typed her only novel— The Bell Jar—in 1962 was sold for £26,000 [13] ($46,071). [note 1] In 2013, in an appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, actor Tom Hanks named the Hermes 3000 as the luxury item he would choose to take with him. [16] [note 2]
hermes 3000.